Grow Your VFX Studio Reach $30k+ months

We Help you in 5 Ways

  • Let’s build you a portfolio like WizardVFX.com
  • 100+ Professional Hollywood VFX Plates to upgrade your demoreel
  • Work with Lendon via screenshare to produce killer shots
  • 50 demoreel references for inspiration (of different studio levels)

We’ll help you systematically land big clients like these (also farm out work to you): 

Lendon will give you referrals to majorly boost your credibility

Step by step procedure doc & CRM software to EFFICIENTLY find & email network with key contacts for key each type of client project:

  • Original Content TV Production
  • Overflow work from big VFX Studios
  • TVC Spots
  • Small Feature Films, Documentaries & Indie
  • Music Videos
  • Business Commercials

We use CRM automation & email templates to assemble a powerful sales email sequence that is easily tweaked for each client2

  • Live sessions with Lendon or mastermind members (learn any VFX skill)
  • While working on real-world client projects, Lendon & community screencapture super short mini-tutorials DAILY
  • Concise Nuke course (Tracking, Roto, Paint, Keying, 3D, etc) Especially made for transitioning After Effects artists
  • Advanced After Effects Course (memorize tons of shortcuts, top 50 effects, tackling advanced shots, etc)
  • Learn 3D on live sessions with Lendon & from other members in the community
  • Staying up-to-date with AI & latest tech

Recruiting Quality Talent (Templates, Procedure Doc & Training)

Effective HR Roster & Interviews (Software, Training)

Team Training (Bite-sized Tutorial from Lendon, How to make your own training, free LMS software)

Reducing Payroll Expense & Tracking Productivity (Software, Training)

Artist Availability, Retention, Benefits & Culture (Software & Training)

Security dangers & access control

Team communication & meetings

Production Pipeline:

  • Automation scripts for Nuke, After Effects, & 3D apps
  • ProductionFlow or SG setup
    (Video annotated revisions, Tracking Shot Status, Assignee, Tasks, Assets)
  • Quality control automation & procedures
  • Identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies
  • Auto folder structures & naming convention
  • Integrating compositing & 3d department

Client Management:

  • Accurate deadline & capacity estimations for client
  • Coordinator protocols
  • Bidding projects & market pricing standards
  • Frequent client relationship problems
  • Invoicing, profit margins & taxes

Assets & Equipment:

  • Render Farm
  • Optimizing workstations
  • Shared local network drive
  • Asset, template, gizmo libraries
  • Equipment techstack
  • Cheapest office solutions to meet with clients & review on big screen
  • Dashboard to monitor resource usage

What is a mastermind?

How we grow: Portfolio, Clientele, VFX Skills, Team, Pipeline

Work sessions with Lendon

  • Extreme productivity = revenue
  • Avoid making costly mistakes & wasting time/money going in sub-optimal direction
  • Get Lendon’s polish on everything
  • Learn VFX & 3D skills via 1:1 meetings
  • Many other things mentioned in 5 pillars like referrals from Lendon, plethora of studio resources, etc

Software & Assets

  • Group share VFX software & elements (save serious money, discover new tools)
  • VFX Asset Goldmine 
  • High-end Hollywood VFX plates for next-level demoreel
  • ProductionFlow.io
    150% efficiency in VFX pipeline (Shotgrid alternative)
    400% efficiency boost of sales pipeline
  • UberVFX Clientele Platform
  • Much more

Procedures & Training

  • Workflow docs & videos for sales, service delivery, pipeline, team, admin
  • Constant feed of bite-size tutorials to improve your studio, VFX skills & keep up with new AI tools 
  • Advanced After Effects course 
  • Concise Nuke course Nuke course made for transitioning After Effects users

CommuNity

  • Seeing your friend hit high revenue targets flips a switch in your brain
  • Stronger together: help each other sell clients with different specialties & portfolios, collaborate on projects
  • Will be helpful in many unexpected ways)
  • Share VFX resources (save serious money, discover new tools)
  • Receive referrals, etc

What Members are saying

"I would have paid more for everything I've gotten from this mastermind."
Anthony Morrow
Studio Owner
"Lendon helped get high-budget virtual production work for Nordic Track. He has a good reach of clients."
Mark Lavania
Virtual Production
"Lendon is the best compositor I have ever met."
Leandro Marini
Studio Owner
"Investing in Lendon's courses was a no brainer."
Brandon
Artist
"I couldn't have found this information anywhere else."
Trevor
Journalist

Want to get started? Or just got a question?

schedule a free demo

  • What does it take to grow a studio to $500k+ revenue? 
  • Will AI benefit or hurt my studio or startup?
  • After Effects or Nuke for my compositing pipeline?
  • How rare are $100k+ budget projects? Is there too much competition? How to find them?
  • What marketing channel is best for client acquisition? 
  • Why the VFX studios are evolving toward remote teams & AI

Simple tool to run VFX studio operations

VFX Pipeline

Revisions

Auto-sync renders
Draw on renders to give revisions

Tracking & Deadline

Arrange tasks & milestones on calendar
Artist assignments
Shot status
Progress report

Profit Margin Control

Calculate payroll expense for each project & artist
Calculate profit margins & remaining budget timeline
Measure of productivity to find payroll waste

Recruiting

Roster of all freelancers with image & info
Record interview & assign skill levels
Call them directly from Production Flow

Sales Pipeline

Track Leads

Contact list of all clients & prospects (tag & organize)
Notes, pipeline stage & communication history
Call, email or text directly inside Production Flow
Gmail integration

Bulk email / SMS

Use tags like %FIRSTNAME%
Segment & exclude contacts

Chat GPT Draft Emails

Automated email drafts to increase follow-up efficiency
Email templates
Email sequence from our customized email templates

Calendar

Schedule and track outreach/followup volume
Don't forget to followup with a client

Take a peek inside

Anthony

Overloading with projects

Pokin

in the Mastermind

Renaissance VFX

Working with Trevor in the Mastermind

Lendon Bracewell

LEADS THE BUSINESS

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Hi, I’m Lendon. I currently live outside Atlanta, GA. I’m the founder of VisionaryFire.com and WizardVFX.com

 


My parents went though an big divorce when I was 16 and started living on my own at that age (was eating oatmeal and didn’t have friends) and had to figure out how to make money with VFX. I never went to worked a job and never went to public school.

Video Copilot’s early tutorials kicked off my career (no surprise), worked for ActionVFX.com, I moved to LA, worked for big VFX studios, and eventually started WizardVFX.com that has been very successful.


I have extensive experience in Nuke, Adobe Suite, Cinema 4D, and have worked closely with specialist in every other VFX software like Houdini, Maya, Blender, etc

 

My goals are:

  1. Help 50 ambitious VFX artists make over $20k monthly revenue
  2. Help people become happier and wiser with meditation
  3. Teach as many people as possible by growing YouTube and what not

 

For fun, I like to:

  1. Learn about the Buddha’s teaching
  2. Design & build software
  3. Have useful conversations with my friends & family
  4. Make friends with strangers

 

Home desk setup

Besi Zeka

STUDENT SUCCESS MANAGER

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For fun, Besi likes to:

  1. Travel
  2.  Figure out compositing techniques
  3.  Party